UCAS help....please
 

Recieved my UCAS offers and i have only been accepted by 1 of my choices.

however i am really not fussed about attending either that course or that university, i only added it to keep the parents happy.

so, my question is if i'm really not happy with my offers but still want to go to university can i withdraw my application and apply again in the next intake (around september time) or because my application has essentially failed am i now stuck with either accepting my one and only offer or not being able to attend university?

cheers

Dave

You can apply again i'm pretty sure as many times as you want? You don't have to be stuck going somewhere that you don't want.
There's also UcasExtra [I think it's called], where there's the possibility at the end of Summer time to go through clearning/apply again/change things, but apparently it's a bit hit and miss. I'd look it up aye.

Clearing is dodgy.
Srsly.
Have you tried route B?

If you're not happy with it, withdraw your application and try again. Take a gap year maybe? Then re-apply and see how it goes. Though if I were you I wouldn't touch anything before talking to someone at your college/6th form about it first.

it gave me one route B thing to apply with, just used that but i'm not expecting much.

i think i was rejected because i lacked a grade C at GCSE maths, but i now have that grade C because i contested my grade D and AQA decided to award me the grade C. even though i have that grade UCAS had no method of updating my grades after i had confirmed my application.

Well, that's why you call up UCAS and tell them about the changes. That's what I had to do when one of my things on UCAS was incorrect. Though I guess it's a bit too late now if all your unis have made up their mind. To be honest, I'd just re-apply in September.

I think you can reapply in may... I think i heard at that at a university parents night thing. maybe if you contact ucas they could tell you exactly what the situation is and when you can reapply. It would be ashamed if you missed out because they dont explain things very well. xxx

re-applying seems like the way forward.

according to all my letters etc i wouldn't have even been able to change my UCAS info over the phone due to not meeting that 14 day deadline thing, only because my letter from AQA arrived once that deadline had passed.

As Alex said, UCAS extra. Look it up.
Or yeah, you can withdraw it I think and then just reapply in Sept again.

have researched UCAS extra and from what i can gather i can only use that service if i haven't been offered any places at all.

Ooh, that's a bit *****. But yeah. Do some travelling, find your inner self, re-apply. (y)

you can go through clearing even if you get the grades. thats what i did.
i went through clearing (which wasn't dodgy at all, when i did it) and it was all good. like, say for example, you get the grades to get into your first choice, you're still within your rights to reject that offer and go through clearing and choose any other uni doing any other course.

good plan.

gonna start working on my fitness etc, if i can't be arsed with uni and the band is going nowhere i'll most likely join the army for a few years.

Dave, I'm prettty sure that if you just reject the one offer you have recieved, you can apply through extra. But, I might be reading/interpreting it wrong in my state of tipsyness. Buuttt:

"Am I eligible? To use Extra you need to have:

• already made five choices;
• received decisions from all these choices; and
• either had no offers or declined all the offers you have received."

http://www.ucas.com/students/afteryouapply/extra

I don't know the system in the UK at all, but I can't imagine there's not a way to try again with the new grades... considering that changing your grade means that effectively the testing people are saying they made a mistake, so it's their fault, not yours, and it would be pretty unfair for their mistake to cost you an offer even after they've corrected it...

My suggestion would be to
1) As others have said, talk to people at your current school about it, since presumably they deal with people applying to uni all the time and should know how the system works, and,
2) Call up the admissions office of the uni you most want to go to, and ask them about it. I know that they do have ways of accepting people besides the normal application process, since they can take International students who don't have the same standard test scores, and mature students whose school records are too old to mean as much anymore (so they'll look at work records and stuff, too), and at the very least, they should be able to tell you want your next move should be to give you the best chance of getting in.